Badly Quote by Claire Tomalin Download Open image “All writers behave badly. All people behave badly.” — Claire Tomalin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Badly Behave People Writers
Writers aren't exactly people...they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person. — F Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“There are no bad writers only people with different taste and opinions” — Vianka Van Bokkem Copy Share Image
“Read widely and with discrimination. Bad writing is contagious." [ Ten rules for writing fiction , The Guardian, 20 February 2010 (with Diana Athill,… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
“Poor Nelly, she was not to know that fashions in sin change as much as other fashions.” — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
I continually get more information about a subject after the book has been published. — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
I was working at the 'Evening Standard' when I heard that there was a job going as deputy literary editor on the 'New Statesman.'… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
I've behaved badly in my life. I hope I haven't behaved as badly as Dickens! In a way, if you're a woman, you're not… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
Simon Russell Beale is an incomparable speaker of Shakespeare and a superb all-round actor. — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that, since I started writing biographies, I've had more of a life in books than I have had in my real… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my head all… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
Biographers search for traces, for evidence of activity, for signs of movement, for letters, for diaries, for photographs. — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
You become more tolerant when you become older. You're not interested in rapping people over the knuckles; you're interested in understanding them. — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
At the very beginning, I was a page at Letterman, and I freelanced for any place that would let me write any word. I… — Ben Schwartz Copy Share Image
There are two ways of knowing if something ends badly: If you're honest with yourself, you just kind of know it. And then there's… — Vince Gilligan Copy Share Image
I'm talking to anyone who has been dumped - have not gotten the job you really wanted or have received those horrible rejection letters… — Jill Abramson Copy Share Image
I was turning up at sets where inexperienced people were making these badly written films - but they were doing it; that was the… — Dexter Fletcher Copy Share Image
In an era when party fundraising is badly tainted, dinners are a really good way of raising cash for campaigning. Lots of people giving… — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
I love pushing my boundaries and seeing how far I can go without, you know, dying or injuring myself too badly. On set I… — Spencer Grammer Copy Share Image
Trump spoke badly about women... It sparked worldwide reactions. — N. Chandrababu Naidu Copy Share Image
People are generally badly advised when they're starting out in the creative field. — Julian Lennon Copy Share Image
You know, sometimes you fall in love and you get treated badly, sometimes you get treated well. — Estelle Copy Share Image
Mandela's heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedom. And yet when he had… — Bono Copy Share Image
Some fighters had blinding speed and reflexes in their heyday but faded badly with age. — Carl Froch Copy Share Image
Likewise, there is no evidence that texting teaches people to spell badly: rather, research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
